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A Florida man who went berserk last July on a Seattle-to-Beijing flight, beating passengers and crew members with a wine bottle before being subdued, was sentenced Tuesday to two years in prison. (www.seattletimes.com) More...

A bystander sustained permanent injuries and lost some quality of life, therefore a two year sentence seems inadequate. Five years of sentence is available and on the books, and even that seems light .

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My apologies to anyone who takes offense at this and/or has a roman numeral attached to their name - really, but ...This guy has a "IV" following his name. Although it's a tad like profiling, I wonder if Mr. Hudek, IV hasn't led a fairly privileged existence, acting and doing whatever moves him in the moment and without consequence. Huge leap, I know. Just sayin', the thought flitted through.

Effective dose!? This demonstrates the problem with legalizing a drug that typically has an unknown potency, an unknown dose for effectiveness, and an unknown safe dosing schedule. And, in the case of medical marijuana, the patient is asking a physician to give them a “green card” to allow the drug to be used with their permission.

That is what we get from bleading heart judges. Keep this up, judge, and we will have this stupidity going on every day. Ban him from flying on any airline for 5 years and award anyone injured $ 100,000 each.

Actually it just goes to show that if he had a boxcutter,like your suppose to believe what happened on 9/11 that caused the single worst attack on America since December 7th 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour,that if someone just used a wine bottle,on them,9/11 would never of happened...?

Certain that this was not caused by marijuana. Should have drug tested him right off the plane to figure out what caused his action. No flying forever for this guy, hope he likes going to Beijing by boat and train.

Young Hudek at age 24 seems to have a lot of time on his hands, having made just under 200 other flights prior to this incident. That’s a lot of passenger time! I do believe that ingesting the marijuana infused candy was an absolute error in judgment which gave rise to his agitated state. Two years in jail is a hard lesson to learn for an otherwise model citizen, yet his actions certaining could have had more devastating consequences.

Professional hockey players have caused permanent injuries to other players during fights without any criminal charges ever being laid. The gleeful fans just cheer and encourage it.

2 years, 5 years or 10 years in jail won't do much to change the assaulter, but a civil suit and a criminal record for assault will change his life forever. Note that keep a prisoner in jail for a year costs around 35,000-40,000 USD.

This guy was probably flying on an Air France flight. After having been on an Air France flight from Paris last month an extremely rude crew member who was in charge of our section of an A380 airbus, had my wife in tears due to his outright rude treatment to non-French speaking passengers. Fortunately there was not a violent short tempered passenger like this individual on our flight.

Leon - Your comment doesn't appear to have any relation at all to the squawk. It wasn't Air France, and there wasn't any rude crew member. As to whether or not there were or were not any non-French speaking pax on this particular Delta flight, I can't comment.

WRT Air Frog: there is a very good reason why we, the British, stay on our side of the English Channel!

However, this seems pretty certainly to have been a Delta Airlines flight and he was on a "dependent pass" (whatever that is). Surely, trying to open an exit door at altitude, apart from being terminally stupid, would result in a charge of "endangering an aircraft"?

Perhaps this is merely a symptom of a general decline in manners and "consideration for others" which stems from a growing "me-me-me" attitude which is spreading through society.